Shrimati Laj Wanti
The Kamoke Massacre · Chief Liaison Officer, Lahore · August 1947
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Sheikhupura report
Appendix I of Gurbachan Singh Talib, Muslim League Attack
Raj Rani
Statement recorded after recovery · D.A.V. College Camp
S. Harbhajan Singh
First Class Magistrate, Gurdaspur
S. Khazan Singh
Village Kotli, District Muzaffarabad
Viranwati
Aged 16/17 · Mirpur
Ram Piari
Aged 20 · Baddomali, District Sialkot
British military officer
Military Evacuation Organisation of West Punjab
The Tehsildar
Report of violence in Sheikhupura
Eight women at D.A.V. College Camp
Refugee statements involving military violence
Indian Liaison Officers
Reports concerning the sale of abducted women
Parsini
Aged 15 · Statement to the Chief Liaison Officer
Durga Rani
Published in Borders and Boundaries
Medical doctor
Jhang refugee camp
Fact Finding Team
Bewal village, Rawalpindi District
Government school teacher
One of the camps attacked on 26 August 1947
Khurshid Bibi
Child survivor and camp testimony
Ayesha Bibi & Nazeeran Bibi
Family and caravan memories
Thoa Khalsa accounts
Three women’s experiences of threatened and completed suicides
Krishna Thapar
Social worker · Recovery operation, 1950
Reshmi Bibi
Recovery, children and forced return
Nadira Khanum & Zakira Fatima
Family memory, silence and recovery
Fatima Sughra
Recovery, honour and suicide
Afzal Tauseef
Writer · Welfare centres and exploitation
Farkhanda Lodi
Culture, silence and vulnerability
Dr. Bapsi Sidhwa
The 1947 Partition Archive · Full citation pending
Meenakshi Bhat
The 1947 Partition Archive · Full citation pending
Read developed recordJanat Bibi
The 1947 Partition Archive · Full citation pending
Read developed recordSarla Dutta
The 1947 Partition Archive · Full citation pending
Read developed recordDr. Roshni Rustomji
The 1947 Partition Archive · Full citation pending
Read developed recordDadan Jethwani
The 1947 Partition Archive · Full citation pending
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